Feb 28, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Perovskites, a broad class of compounds with a particular kind of crystal structure, have long been seen as a promising...

IntroductionIf you want to tile a bathroom floor, square tiles are the simplest option — they fit together without any gaps in a grid...

IntroductionIn Cassandra Extavour’s office at Harvard University hangs a placard with a painted rainbow flag and a friendly invitation. “You are welcome here,” it reads. “I...

Adam Berlie is a muon instrument scientist at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source in the UK, having done postdocs in China and Australia....

IntroductionImagine that a grid of hexagons, honeycomb-like, stretches before you. Some hexagons are empty; others are filled by a 6-foot tall column of solid...

IntroductionBacteria don’t throw dinner parties or tell jokes, but they are social in their own way. When the presence of food gives them an...

Jan 05, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Using a new technology developed at MIT, diagnosing lung cancer could become as easy as inhaling nanoparticle sensors and then...

IntroductionJames Stroud had a problem. The evolutionary biologist had spent several years studying lizards on a small island in Miami. These Anolis lizards had...

The road to Bose–Einstein condensates and degenerate Fermi gases was paved with ideas that shouldn’t have worked, but did, as Chad Orzel explains in...

Antibiotics have saved countless lives and are a crucial tool in modern medicine. But we’re losing ground in our battle against bacteria. In the...

The effect of doubling atmospheric carbon dioxide on the climate becomes more pronounced as carbon dioxide levels rise – researchers in the US have...

IntroductionNearly a century ago, the evolutionary theorist Sewall Wright imagined a landscape of mountains and valleys. The peaks represented states of high evolutionary fitness...